Norwegian joint venture between CTS Group (Norway) and Eaton (US) producing modular electrical Power Distribution Units (ePODs) for hyperscale and colocation data centres. Building a €50 million factory in Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, expected to create approximately 500 jobs when fully ramped, with operations scheduled to start in 2026.
NordicEPOD is a joint venture between Norwegian CTS Group — itself a Norwegian-controlled data-centre integration specialist with a sister entity already operating in Portugal — and Eaton, the US-listed global power-management group. The JV manufactures modular ePOD (electrical Power Distribution) units used at hyperscale data-centre sites for medium-voltage to low-voltage transformation, switchgear and busbar distribution. The Viana do Castelo factory is positioned to supply the Iberian and broader European data-centre build-out from a low-cost, well-connected northern-Portugal industrial cluster.
The site sits inside the wider Sines / Start Campus / Microsoft AI data-centre narrative that has been Portugal’s most visible inbound capital story of 2025–2026, and ties Norwegian industrial capital directly to the Iberian hyperscale supply chain.
NordicEPOD is one of the cleanest examples of Nordic operational capital extending into the Portuguese data-centre supply chain — not as a hyperscale operator, but as a tier-1 equipment manufacturer. The €50M investment and 500-job target place it firmly in the “productive” (not just real-estate) layer of the Iberian data-centre build.
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